the master cleanse. day 1.
Thoughts from Note
I'm sitting here drinking my senna tea at the end of the end of the first day. I read the first day isn't so bad and I agree. The lemonade drink was a lot better than I was expecting. I actually kinda enjoy the kick of the cayenne pepper. I wasn't actually hungry at all today - except for right now, oddly enough, my stomach's grumbling a bit but maybe it's because of the tea and not from hunger. The senna tea, despite what I've read of it's lack of deliciousness, is actually quite good, in my opinion. It's a nice contrast to the overly sweet lemonade concoction you are drinking all day. It's almost savory.
The salt drink, however, is a different story. Not as bad as I was expecting, but still awful. 32oz of salt water, no matter how much you pretend is chicken stock, just doesn't go down well. Hell, 32oz of ANYTHING has a hard time going down. But I got it down and it, mostly, seemed to do its thing.
I feel fine. A little spacey at times during the day but nothing off. It is, after all, only the end of the first day. I expect far worse from the following 9 (or at least the following three or four).
Meghan and I are tracking ourselves via WiiFit. First time I've used it in a while. But now we have it in English so perhaps being able to understand full what the silly animated balance board is saying will motivate me.
See you tomorrow night. --note
Thoughts from Megumi
Day one of the master cleanse has gone pretty much without incident. Last night we had only salads and consomme for dinner- our last meal of solid foods for the next 11-12 days (10 days of fast and then the slow move back to real food). To “wind down” into the cleanse I put christophe and I on a vegetarian diet for about a week, moving steadily toward no carb inclusions. Maybe because of that, today was really not so bad.
warning- lots of poo talk in the following paragraph
Woke up around 8 (schools are still in spring break so we didn't have to be into work until later) and mixed up my first salt water drink. Your supposed to mix two teaspoons (or tablespoons depending on who you talk to) with warm water, chug it in two minutes, then 30 minutes later poo it out. Well I messed up and used the wrong spoon, only putting a total of 1 teaspoon in. I am also incapable of chugging- it took me about 20 minutes to get the whole liter down and about the last 300 ml came straight back out- I wouldn't even call it throwing up since it was just salt water refusing to go down really. And still no poos, but then again I don't really ever poo, so that's not a big surprise for me. I suppose we are getting into details about Meghan the internet doesn't need to know- but just to put things in perspective I poo a grand total of two to three times a week if I am lucky. Really 3 times a week is a really good week for me. Not sure why, not constipated, just don't feel any need to poo. It’s kind of an issue I think, and its part of why I wanted to do this cleanse in the first place. I feel like a lot of stuff must be getting backed up in me and I figure it’ll be good to really get it all out. So tomorrow I will try again with more salt and hopefully faster drinking.
As for hunger, I wouldn't say I have been hungry at any point today. I have craved food, I crave the feeling of biting into a loaf of bread or an onigiri (rice ball wrapped in seaweed). I find that it is the textures of food that have been enticing me. A moment ago I found myself day dreaming about the texture of couscous. I read somewhere about how the hardest part is breaking your addition to food. And I think that is really accurate for me- I don't feel a pain in my stomach, just a yearning in my mouth. So I think breaking that addiction, not wanting to be eating things all the time, will be good. Then again, I might just develop a long list of the foods I crave most then eat them like crazy after this.
I am thinking I will start to feel pangs of hunger tomorrow morning, after a full 24 hours of no food. Oh and one other thing, I didn't actually end up drinking the full 2 liters of lemonade we get each day. About half way through the 2nd liter I realized it was 9pm and figured I better switch to herbal tea, cause the maple syrup will keep me up (I know, I’m ridiculous, but it really will). I thought it was interesting after reading all these people talk about how you have to savor every drop and ration carefully. Maybe it will be a different story in a few days.
That’s all for now. Ill check back in tomorrow.
-meghan
I'm sitting here drinking my senna tea at the end of the end of the first day. I read the first day isn't so bad and I agree. The lemonade drink was a lot better than I was expecting. I actually kinda enjoy the kick of the cayenne pepper. I wasn't actually hungry at all today - except for right now, oddly enough, my stomach's grumbling a bit but maybe it's because of the tea and not from hunger. The senna tea, despite what I've read of it's lack of deliciousness, is actually quite good, in my opinion. It's a nice contrast to the overly sweet lemonade concoction you are drinking all day. It's almost savory.
The salt drink, however, is a different story. Not as bad as I was expecting, but still awful. 32oz of salt water, no matter how much you pretend is chicken stock, just doesn't go down well. Hell, 32oz of ANYTHING has a hard time going down. But I got it down and it, mostly, seemed to do its thing.
I feel fine. A little spacey at times during the day but nothing off. It is, after all, only the end of the first day. I expect far worse from the following 9 (or at least the following three or four).
Meghan and I are tracking ourselves via WiiFit. First time I've used it in a while. But now we have it in English so perhaps being able to understand full what the silly animated balance board is saying will motivate me.
See you tomorrow night. --note
Thoughts from Megumi
Day one of the master cleanse has gone pretty much without incident. Last night we had only salads and consomme for dinner- our last meal of solid foods for the next 11-12 days (10 days of fast and then the slow move back to real food). To “wind down” into the cleanse I put christophe and I on a vegetarian diet for about a week, moving steadily toward no carb inclusions. Maybe because of that, today was really not so bad.
warning- lots of poo talk in the following paragraph
Woke up around 8 (schools are still in spring break so we didn't have to be into work until later) and mixed up my first salt water drink. Your supposed to mix two teaspoons (or tablespoons depending on who you talk to) with warm water, chug it in two minutes, then 30 minutes later poo it out. Well I messed up and used the wrong spoon, only putting a total of 1 teaspoon in. I am also incapable of chugging- it took me about 20 minutes to get the whole liter down and about the last 300 ml came straight back out- I wouldn't even call it throwing up since it was just salt water refusing to go down really. And still no poos, but then again I don't really ever poo, so that's not a big surprise for me. I suppose we are getting into details about Meghan the internet doesn't need to know- but just to put things in perspective I poo a grand total of two to three times a week if I am lucky. Really 3 times a week is a really good week for me. Not sure why, not constipated, just don't feel any need to poo. It’s kind of an issue I think, and its part of why I wanted to do this cleanse in the first place. I feel like a lot of stuff must be getting backed up in me and I figure it’ll be good to really get it all out. So tomorrow I will try again with more salt and hopefully faster drinking.
As for hunger, I wouldn't say I have been hungry at any point today. I have craved food, I crave the feeling of biting into a loaf of bread or an onigiri (rice ball wrapped in seaweed). I find that it is the textures of food that have been enticing me. A moment ago I found myself day dreaming about the texture of couscous. I read somewhere about how the hardest part is breaking your addition to food. And I think that is really accurate for me- I don't feel a pain in my stomach, just a yearning in my mouth. So I think breaking that addiction, not wanting to be eating things all the time, will be good. Then again, I might just develop a long list of the foods I crave most then eat them like crazy after this.
I am thinking I will start to feel pangs of hunger tomorrow morning, after a full 24 hours of no food. Oh and one other thing, I didn't actually end up drinking the full 2 liters of lemonade we get each day. About half way through the 2nd liter I realized it was 9pm and figured I better switch to herbal tea, cause the maple syrup will keep me up (I know, I’m ridiculous, but it really will). I thought it was interesting after reading all these people talk about how you have to savor every drop and ration carefully. Maybe it will be a different story in a few days.
That’s all for now. Ill check back in tomorrow.
-meghan
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